* Marinel Burduja, in the cards for the management of the new bank
"ATE Bank" Romania, recently acquired by "Piraeus Bank", will be partially bought by several Romanian investors and initially capitalized up to 60 million Euros, and in 2013 more investors will be co-opted, including the financial investment companies (SIFs), and its equity will reach 200 million Euros.
"The negotiations with < Piraeus > are at a very advanced stage. Not only the license of < ATE Bank > will be acquired, but part of the assets and liabilities of the bank as well. The completion of the deal is just a matter of days", sources close to the transaction said, quoted by Mediafax.
Based on the information available at this time, the new bank will be aimed exclusively at companies, particularly those operating in industry and agriculture.
According to the quoted sources, starting next year, the new bank will be led by former "Raiffeisen Bank" vice-president Marinel Burduja, who is also the man leading these negotiations.
Contacted by BURSA, Marinel Burduja declined to comment on this information. However, he told us that he is still in a "period of neutrality" in relation to "Raiffeisen Bank International", a period which he is required to honor.
About a month ago, BURSA wrote that a Romanian bank may show up in the domestic banking system, with the initiative coming from Marinel Burduja, who is negotiating with the SIFs the launch of a Romanian investment bank, having the support of the Romanian National Bank (BNR).
"We are talking about an investment bank, which will make a very careful selection of its investments, which would finance domestically owned companies", our sourced told us at the time.
They said that the plan would be for the new bank to lay the foundation for a "purely Romanian lender", without acquiring assets from other banks,
